Biography:
Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, Barking, Essex, England, 20 December, 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes.
In 1977, Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff, and toured London's pubs and clubs. The band released a series of singles, which did not receive wide exposure. He also worked in Guy Norris Records in Barking.
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Other songs:
- A New England (kingblues)
- Old Clash Fan Fight Song
- To Have And To Have Not
- A Lover Sings
- A New England
- A13 Trunk Road To The Sea
- Accident Waiting To Happen
- Airline To Heaven
- All You Fascists
- At My Window Sad And Lonely
- Bad Penny
- Between The Wars
- Birds And Ships
- Blood Of The Lamb
- Brickbat
- Bugeye Jim
- California Stars
- Chain Of Broken Hearts
- Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
- Days Like These
- Dry Bed
- Eisler On The Go
- Everybody Loves You Babe
- Everywhere
- Feed Of Man
- Full English Brexit
- Greetings To The New Brunette
- Handyman Blues
- Hard Times Of Old England Retold
- Help Save The Youth Of America
- Hesitating Beauty
- Hobos Lullaby
- Honey Im A Big Boy Now
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- I Aint Got Not Home
- I Almost Killed You
- Ideology
- Ingrid Bergman
- It Says Here
- Levi Stubbs Tears
- Life With Lions
- Life With The Lions
- Like Soldiers Do
- Listening To The Wind That Blows
- Little Time Bomb
- Lovers Town Revisited
- Loving You Too Long
- M For Me
- Must I Paint You A Picture
- My Thirty Thousand
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Never Buy The Sun
- Never Cross A Picket Line
- New England
- No One Knows Anyone Anymore
- No Power Without Accountability
- Northern Industrial Town
- Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
- One By One
- Only One
- Ontario Quebec And Me
- Price I Pay
- Raglan Road
- Railroad Bill
- Remember The Mountain Bed
- Richard
- Rotting On Remand
- Rule Nor Reason
- Rumours Of War
- Saturday Boy
- Secret Of The Sea
- Sexuality
- She Came Along To Me
- Shes Got A New Spell
- Sin City
- Sing Their Souls Back Home
- Someday Some Morning Sometime
- Spacerace Is Over
- St Swithins Day
- Stetson Kennedy
- Take Down The Union Jack
- Talking Wag Club Blues
- The Boy Done Good
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- The Home Front
- The Internationale
- The Man In The Iron Mask
- The Only One
- The Passion
- The Price I Pay
- The Price Of Oil
- The Short Answer
- The Unwelcome Guest
- The Warmest Room
- There Is Power In A Union
- There Will Be A Reckoning
- Upfield
- Valentines Day Is Over
- Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
- Walt Whitmans Niece
- Warmest Room
- Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
- Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
- Where The Roses Are In Bloom
- Why We Build The Wall
- Wishing The Days Away
- World Turned Upside Down
- You Make Me Brave
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
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Capo 1
[Intro]
D G D Bm A x2
D G
Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
D Bm A
Grandma lays the table alone
D G
And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier
D Bm A
In this Holy of Holies the Home
G D Em F#m
And from the TV an unwatched voice
G D Em F#m
Suggests the answer is to plant more trees
G D Em F#m
The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers
G D Em F#m
And the voice of the people says more salt please
D G
Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the newspaper
D Bm A
And Father puts another lock on the door
D G
And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in
D Bm A
While chatting to the wife beater next door
G D Em F#m
If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime
G D Em F#m
Home truths are easily missed
G D Em F#m
Something that every football fan knows
G D Em A Bm
It only takes five fingers to form a fist
A Em F#m
And when it rains here, it rains so hard
Em F#m G A
But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow
Em F#m G A
I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow
Em F#m G A
The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence
Em F#m G A
From this family life sentence
D G
Mother sees but does not read the peeling posters
D Bm A
And can't believe that there's a world to be won
D G
But in the public schools and in the public houses
D Bm A
The Battle of Britain goes on
G D Em F#m
The constant promise of jam tomorrow
G D Em F#m
Is the New Breeds litany and verse
G D Em F#m
If it takes another war to fill the churches of England
G D Em F#m
Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth
D G
Mother fights the tears and father, his sense of outrage
D Bm A
And attempts to justify the sacrifice
D G
To pass their creed down to another generation
D Bm A
Anything for the quite life
G D Em F#m
In the Land of a Thousand Doses
G D Em F#m
Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
G D Em F#m
Our place in history is as clock watchers
G D Em F#m
Old timers, window shoppers
[Outro]
D G D Bm A x4
Fade into Blake's Jerusalem...
[Intro]
D G D Bm A x2
D G
Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
D Bm A
Grandma lays the table alone
D G
And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier
D Bm A
In this Holy of Holies the Home
G D Em F#m
And from the TV an unwatched voice
G D Em F#m
Suggests the answer is to plant more trees
G D Em F#m
The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers
G D Em F#m
And the voice of the people says more salt please
D G
Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the newspaper
D Bm A
And Father puts another lock on the door
D G
And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in
D Bm A
While chatting to the wife beater next door
G D Em F#m
If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime
G D Em F#m
Home truths are easily missed
G D Em F#m
Something that every football fan knows
G D Em A Bm
It only takes five fingers to form a fist
A Em F#m
And when it rains here, it rains so hard
Em F#m G A
But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow
Em F#m G A
I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow
Em F#m G A
The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence
Em F#m G A
From this family life sentence
D G
Mother sees but does not read the peeling posters
D Bm A
And can't believe that there's a world to be won
D G
But in the public schools and in the public houses
D Bm A
The Battle of Britain goes on
G D Em F#m
The constant promise of jam tomorrow
G D Em F#m
Is the New Breeds litany and verse
G D Em F#m
If it takes another war to fill the churches of England
G D Em F#m
Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth
D G
Mother fights the tears and father, his sense of outrage
D Bm A
And attempts to justify the sacrifice
D G
To pass their creed down to another generation
D Bm A
Anything for the quite life
G D Em F#m
In the Land of a Thousand Doses
G D Em F#m
Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
G D Em F#m
Our place in history is as clock watchers
G D Em F#m
Old timers, window shoppers
[Outro]
D G D Bm A x4
Fade into Blake's Jerusalem...
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